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Supply and demand. Honda is making a boat load of money on the Groms, add a little retro styling and I'll bet they will be hard to keep in the stores. That and it would be nice to get 100+ mpg on at least one of my machines.

If I wasn't concerned about how much of a fool I would look like riding one I'd buy one. Unfortunately I look like a circus bear riding a tricycle on those bikes.

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This bike looks awesome in pictures. Imagine actually seeing it in real life. Look at the attention to detail on it. There are zero crap parts on it. If they wanted to make it cheap, they would have put plastic fenders, conventional forks, Halogen headlight, drum brakes and it crappy fuel injection. The attention to detail is Harley like. This is Honda we are talking about here. They can make quality bikes, but at what cost?

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Have you checked the price for a new ktm 350? You can thank them for the increase in msrp's. It all boils down to what the market will pay. People paying 10k plus for a dirt bike? Why not pump your prices up too?

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These are sweet don't get me wrong, but we have a 1994 CT70 and I wouldn't be caught dead on the road riding that thing. It's so small and doesn't have enough power to get out of it's own way. While cool, these little bikes seem like an invitation to be ground meat on a soccer moms oil pan.

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This bike looks awesome in pictures. Imagine actually seeing it in real life. Look at the attention to detail on it. There are zero crap parts on it. If they wanted to make it cheap, they would have put plastic fenders, conventional forks, Halogen headlight, drum brakes and it crappy fuel injection. The attention to detail is Harley like. This is Honda we are talking about here. They can make quality bikes, but at what cost?

Yah was gonna mention the attention to detail on the new Monkey is pretty impressive, def not a budget bike. They hired some good, expensive designers. I could see this attracting new motorcycle riders who pose pretty hard vs them getting scooters/ebikes, and that's a good thing.

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Those Groms are everywhere around me, I see about 15-20 of them on my way to work and back, When traffic back's up to a crawl, The dam things are riding everywhere in the median and right up next to ya, And right past ya, One just missed my side mirror One of these day's And It's only a matter of time someone will open their door and take one Out!!